From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding missing copyright years Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 18:24:09 +0100 Message-ID: <58sm0k8n2e.fsf@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk> References: <85mzraqm9k.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <4ekc7rkm0.fsf@xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1116444363 16997 80.91.229.2 (18 May 2005 19:26:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 19:26:03 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 18 21:26:01 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYUAE-0000uP-1h for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 21:25:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYUCi-0004Wu-3N for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 15:27:40 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYSJM-0000e6-DN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 13:26:24 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DYSJK-0000cj-9R for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 13:26:22 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DYSJJ-0000bv-JM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 18 May 2005 13:26:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [131.111.8.137] (helo=ppsw-7.csi.cam.ac.uk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DYSPH-0004cO-8A; Wed, 18 May 2005 13:32:31 -0400 X-Cam-SpamDetails: Not scanned X-Cam-AntiVirus: No virus found X-Cam-ScannerInfo: http://www.cam.ac.uk/cs/email/scanner/ Original-Received: from cass41.ast.cam.ac.uk ([131.111.69.186]:49294) by ppsw-7.csi.cam.ac.uk (ppsw.cam.ac.uk [131.111.8.137]:25) with esmtp id 1DYSHB-0003rm-PT (Exim 4.51) (return-path ); Wed, 18 May 2005 18:24:09 +0100 Original-Received: from xserv1.ast.cam.ac.uk (xserv1.ast.cam.ac.uk [131.111.69.235]) by cass41.ast.cam.ac.uk (8.12.10+Sun/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j4IHO9oL014510; Wed, 18 May 2005 18:24:09 +0100 (BST) Original-Received: from xalph3.ast.cam.ac.uk (xpc14.ast.cam.ac.uk [131.111.69.34]) by xserv1.ast.cam.ac.uk (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E1F31728D7; Wed, 18 May 2005 18:24:09 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Thien-Thi Nguyen X-Spook: Mayi-Mayi Khmer Rouge Uzi LSD CNRM Osama Bin Laden 9/11 X-Ran: gaf|'>8hg]LiQ/XA8HZ<^u)a67R7AWe*9L'@j?)R{T=Mbtnz>I8{@A^UW2lxhR$#~+BjIJ X-Hue: yellow X-Attribution: GM Mail-Followup-To: Thien-Thi Nguyen , emacs-devel@gnu.org User-Agent: Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:37282 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:37282 Thien-Thi Nguyen wrote: > Glenn Morris writes: > >> How is the copyright header supposed to deal with this kind of >> gradual, cumulative change? > > does admin/notes/years (just installed) address this question? A list of guidelines like this is clearly needed and should prove very helpful, thanks. An initial comment: - sometimes the release year slips, leaving a file w/ prematurely marked release year => need update (e.g., s/2004/2005/ for Emacs 22) It is my understanding this is not correct when the source is available all the time via CVS. Whenever changes are made they can be considered to be "released". This means that for Emacs, a distinction must be made between the periods before/after the point when development switched to CVS (this was when?). Before this point, one needs to know the years when releases were made. After this point, the dates of releases become irrelevant. This probably explains the "2004 changed into 2005" issue.